There is a bit of the good old boys club with appraisers, your in or your out type thing with Dodd Frank, so they run the numbers by the books and don't get risky out of fear of losing work themselves.I only do commercial loans.

The IRA is invested into a LLC that you can control, thus pushing the IRA to the back-end and letting you run the investments directly via the LLC. 

Hmmmm, it can help you on bonus point "things", but I think it will hurt you in the long run when solid creditors look at your credit report...

Even though you may have experience running a brush over a wall, there’s a huge difference in time and quality between a professional paint job and someone painting their own wall.

Finally, there will be federal taxes beyond beyond income tax, since you are considered running a business, you'll be liable for self-employment taxes related to the business income from your nightly rental business.The proposed legislation limits the total number of nights to 90 per year (for units that are not owner occupied, like a home).

I'm a software architect by day, and early mornings, evenings, and weekends I run a small commodity trading firm and am also a real estate investor.  

Tech firms don’t want traditional multiyear leases, and may not be able to honor the ones they do sign if the businesses fail or run out of money.

My reading of the rules and regulations led me to believe that the government is trying to force ground rents out of the picture. 

I'm only asking because I'd like to work on running the numbers but the pro-forma just doesn't show me all the information that I need for a proper analysis.

I am very capable in excel, having manually and mentally run the numbers of multifamily units listed online I have found that none of them come close to meeting the 1% rule.